3.13.2009
Things I Don't Understand But Am Fascinated By.
Really. If I hadn't seen it, no WAY would I believe it. 3.5 lbs of dog food? One flush?
It may be powered by toxic sludge or unicorn fur. I don't care. I want it. Even though the Kid is long past his creative flushing days. Even though I have no Real need for Quattro technology.
It entertains me.
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I can appreciate this too, after being forced to live with these new "water saving" toilets that NEVER flush right the first time. So you end up flushing more than once - what is the water savings in that?
Oh, Cocotte, I am SO with you on that. . .
Here in Michigan, there has been something of a 'black market' for smuggled Canadian toilets. Sounds bizarre, I know, but absolutely true. . .
Of course, what I really wanna know is what this toilet will do with one (1) large-mouth canning lid. Probably the most purely *frustrated* I've ever been. . .
A large mouth canning lid? Oh, that is toooo much! The worst we had was a stuffed animal Pooh Bear. Fortunately, all he did was swim and not go down!
What a load of crap! There was nothing even resembling reality about the crud they flushed!
They had a great demo for our humble little toidy when we bought it. Then we got it home ......
I am now Plunger Man!
OK, the story goes like this. . .
A quart of home-canned peaches had gone bad (you know, and inch of green fuzz sitting on top of the contents), so Molly just dumped 'em down the toilet. As she dumped 'em, she heard a tinny little 'tink', but didn't think much about it, and everything flushed OK, so no big deal, right?
Well, for the next couple weeks, the toilet would intermittently (but not always) plug up HARD. Water flooding onto the bathroom floor. But then the next time it would be fine, until it happened again.
So finally, I had to unseat the toilet. Took it out in the back yard and ran a hose down it, but the water went right through, just fine. But somewhere in there, I heard a tinny little 'tink' that betrayed the fact that all was not as it should have been.
Turns out, the canning lid had gotten to the sharp ceramic corner inside the toilet, and lodged itself there, whereupon it acted as a butterfly valve (tip o' the hat to our bloggity hostess) - sometimes it was open, and sometimes it would close off completely. So I just had to figure out how to reach around the corner and extract the (um, 'filthy') canning lid, whereupon the toilet behaved just fine. Except that, in the course of reassembling the toilet, I managed to crack the porcelain flange on the bowl, so I ended up having to buy a new toilet out of the deal. Molly has almost lived that one down, by now. . .
Cocotte -- They must make the water-saving toilets different up north, here, cause I've yet to have had a problem with any. Which maybe explains the "black market" Desmond was talking about. :)
Desmond -- I suppose that Molly is much more careful, now... and all that work only to end up having to buy a new toilet? Not fair.
Xavier -- *snort* *snicker* Ha! You said "load of crap"! Toilet? Crap? Get it? ;) I did notice that most things that they flushed were of a uniform size and shape. Some of the amounts were impressive, I guess. But, I did question whether or not this was something that the average "flush" could handle, and just no one had ever thought to try before. I still find it entertaining, though.
OK, maybe more of a 'brown market'. . . (*ba-doomp!*)
At least when I became aware of the market for smuggled Canadian toilets, they weren't mandated to 1.6 gpf, like US-legal ones, so they could flush a bit more water thru the system, like the good-old toilets we all grew up with. . .
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